What 鏯 means
A dictionary equates it with 鐵, the traditional Chinese character for iron. As of 2026, one Cantonese listing gives song2 in Jyutping, Cantonese romanization—roughly “song” with a rising tone—but no gloss.
The Qing-era Chinese book 《萇楚齋續筆》 describes iron painting in Wuhu, China—pictures made with iron—alongside ironworkers and nails. It documents a craft use, not the character’s origin.
Read a bare 鏯 with its surrounding context.
Do not universalize the iron gloss.
Questions people ask
1Why does 鏯 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 鏯
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 93EF, then Alt+X to get 鏯.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cjk unified ideograph-93ef”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 93ef, then Enter or Space.
HTML
鏯CSS
\93EFCangjie 鏯
Enter CKKK in a Cangjie input method for Chinese characters; its table must include this entry.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
鏯
HTML hex
鏯
CSS content
content: "\93EF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E9%8F%AF
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.